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Age of the Universeby Dr. Gerald Schroeder According to a possible reading of ancient commentators' description of God and nature, the world may be simultaneously young and old. One of the most obvious perceived contradictions between Torah and science is the age of the universe. Is it billions of years old, like scientific data, or is it thousands of years, like Biblical data? When we add up the generations of the Bible, we come to 5700-plus years. Whereas, data from the Hubbell telescope or from the land based telescopes in Hawaii, indicate the age at about 15 billion years.Let...

MOON DAILYBig Bang Afterglow Fails An Intergalactic Shadow Test Because it is seen coming from every direction in nearly uniform power and frequency, cosmologists theorized that the microwave background is afterglow radiation left over by the Big Bang that created the universe. by Staff Writers Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 03, 2006 The apparent absence of shadows where shadows were expected to be is raising new questions about the faint glow of microwave radiation once hailed as proof that the universe was created by a "Big Bang." In a finding sure to cause controversy, scientists at The University of Alabama in...

LONDON (Reuters) - A group of scientists has discovered a distant star that could date back to the beginning of the Universe.The giant star, HE0107-5240, is a galactic rarity because it is virtually metal-free unlike the other, more modern known stars, they wrote in the science journal Nature."These old stars provide crucial clues to the star formation history and the synthesis of chemical elements in the early Universe," they said. "If totally metal-free stars could be found, this would allow the direct study of the pristine gas from the Big Bang," they added. The existence of stars with zero or...